Working closely with the Transformative Studies Institute (TSI at
http://transformativestudies.org/ ), which is now sponsoring TPC, and with the Institute for Critical Animal Studies (ICAS at
http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/ ), TPC will serve as a media platform and educational resource to help advance the cause of the total liberation of human animals, non-human animals, and the Earth.

TPC will continue to operate free of corporate, government, NGO, or individual financial influence. TPC accepts money from no one, including TSI.

Here are some offerings from TPC's new location:

1. Breaking Gaza's Will: Israel's Enduring Fantasy by Ramzy Baroud

Olmert wants to "break the will" of Hamas, i.e. the Palestinians, since the Hamas government was elected and backed by the majority of the Palestinian people.

Isn't 60 years of suffering and survival enough to convince Olmert that the will of the Palestinians cannot be broken? How many heaps of wreckage and mutilated bodies will be enough to convince the prime minister that those who fight for their freedom will either be free or will die trying?

Under capitalism the owners/controllers attempt, usually with great success, to create the illusion that the State is somehow an independent body, up for grabs. In fact, and one can observe this happening over and over again, the State serves primarily the interests of the owning/controlling class, which in fact own it too. (In the U.S., with for the most part private financing of elections, they literally buy it.)

Our real sin was that unlike many on the Left we refused to uncritically swallow U.S. media propaganda about communist societies. Instead, we maintained that, aside from the well-publicized deficiencies and injustices, there were positive features about existing communist systems that were worth preserving, that improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people in meaningful and humanizing ways.

4. Until there are no beings whom we still define as "other" by Norm Phelps and Steve Best

Thus, I support the liberation of animals ' from Jesus' liberation of the animals waiting to be sacrificed in the Temple through medieval saints, through early ALF liberation raids on laboratories and mink farms, through "open rescues" of the type practiced by Animal Liberation Victoria, Compassion Over Killing, and other groups.

Among the terrible pictures that I have seen on the Web, pictures that Palestinians and friends of Palestine have sent me, the most terrible was not of shattered, mutilated bodies, of blasted lives and unendurable pain. The most terrible was a picture of young Israelis standing within their secure borders (of occupied Palestine!) looking at the devastation being visited on the terrified civilians of Gaza a couple of miles away. And the unremitting horror of that image was that those who watched the bombs bursting in air and the puffs of death rising--they were smiling.

6. The absurd persistence of domination: Of speciesism, capitalism, and shaking their foundations by Jason Miller

Speciesism, the mental perversion that afflicts most people--causing them to view themselves as superior to all other species, is the one of the most blatantly exploitative and reprehensible of all human ideologies. Yet it remains "socially acceptable." Inextricably linked with the bourgeois belief in the supremacy of profit and property over life, speciesism reveals the ferocity and grotesquery of savage capitalism.

And every time THE MAN tries to crack down, the network of rebel thrill-seekers grows until Kris - who grows a Che Guevara beard and changes his name to "Claus" after a wanted poster names the clean-shaven Kris Kringle PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE - is welcome among fellow travelers and creatures of the woods like Che himself among the peasants.

As the slave power tightened its grip upon the government, John Brown's views on emancipation changed radically. "A firm believer in the divine authenticity of the Bible", he drew his inspiration and guidance from the Old Testament rather than the New. He lost sympathy with the abolitionists of the Garrison school who advocated the Christ-like doctrine of non-resistance to force. He identified himself with the shepherd Gideon who led his band against the Midianites and slew them with his own hand.

9. My Dog or Your Child? Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value by Steve Best

When Ingrid Newkirk says that "a rat is a dog is a boy," she is not collapsing all differences among them; rather, she is emphasizing that all equally are sentient mammals who share the capacities for pleasure and pain, for enjoyable and horrible lives.

Now the U.S. freely interferes with nations across the globe. Through its intelligence services, its domination of the World Bank, and the military, it removes leaders, buys off other leaders, seduces critics abroad, and, using the media as it did on Iraq, wages unjust wars at will.

For modern men as for medieval men Mammon is the personification of the excessive love of money and wealth. By extension then Mammon is the god of excess. Mammon demands that its worshippers strive toward excess, that they exceed the eternal limits of the Greeks. America has obeyed the abominable god's commandments.